Sentences with phrase «pace of warming»

The ongoing global warming pause is rendering the longer - term pace of warming still more modest.

First, there is still a lot of uncertainty about the extent and pace of warming from a particular rise in concentrations of greenhouse gases, and about how fast and far seas will rise as a result.

Temperatures have already risen by 0.8 C (1.4 F) since the Industrial Revolution and are on track to cause more heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels despite a hiatus in the pace of warming at the Earth's surface so far this century.

«Without the existence of these proteins that could help phytoplankton cope in these stressful environments, the phytoplankton diversity in many regions of the ocean would be much lower, in particular by reducing large phytoplankton such as diatoms that are known to take up a lot of carbon dioxide, thus possibly accelerating the pace of a warming planet,» said Marchetti, assistant professor of marine science at UNC - Chapel Hill.

If an element takes up more carbon than it emits, it is known as a «carbon sink» and it acts to slow the pace of warming.

As global temperatures rise, the response from different parts of the climate system can amplify or dampen the pace of warming.

[1] K. Caldeira and N. Myhrvold, «Projections of the pace of warming following an abrupt increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration,» Environmental Research Letters, vol.

Uncertainty in the amount of warming combines with uncertainty in the pace of warming.

While the planet's surface temperatures over the past century have risen to unprecedented levels, records have shown a slowdown in the pace of warming over the past 15 years.

[1] K. Caldeira and N. Myhrvold, «Projections of the pace of warming following an abrupt increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration,» Environmental Research Letters, vol.

The surface is strongly affected by natural climate fluctuations, such as El Niño, which can temporarily speed up or slow down the pace of warming.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

Recent scientific studies, including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common air pollutants, soot and smog.

Again, the pace of warming throughout the entirety of the record is approximately 1 degree Celsius per century.

And although if you add it up, all the commitments that were made by all 200 nations, it would still not be sufficient to deal with the pace of warming that we're seeing in the atmosphere.

Cowtan... reanalyzed data underpinning key global temperature data sets: two most prominent data sets, one maintained by a British collaboration and the other by NASA, underestimate the pace of warming between 1997 and 2012 by an estimated 158 % and 49 %, respectively....

You can see a rundown of possible explanations for the slowdown in the 2000s here — hypotheses include the idea that some of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases had been stored temporarily in the ocean, or that an outburst of volcanic activity muted the pace of warming briefly.

«You win some, you lose some,» Benny Peiser, director of the GWPF, told Reuters, adding that the pace of warming «is not something that people... need to be greatly concerned about».

Temperatures in the Arctic are increasing around three times as fast as the global average, yet the pace of warming has been much slower at Earth's... Read More

Natural forces alone can not account for the warming that has occurred, and the pace of warming is unique in Earth history.

As CO2 levels increase, the pace of warming accelerates.

«The truth is that over a 10 - or 20 - year period, it depends largely on how fast the Earth warms, and we can't predict the pace of warming very precisely.

The draft summary of the report all but dismissed recent claims of a slowdown in the pace of warming, which has seized upon by climate - change sceptics.

Either way, the results — echoed in a recent analysis from Japan's Meteorological Agency, which found 1.13 degrees F. above the 20th - century average — indicate that global warming continues unabated, despite a slowdown in the pace of warming during the first part of the 21st century.

«You win some, you lose some,» he said, adding that the pace of warming «is not something that people -LSB-...] need to be greatly concerned about.»

Hansen has a reputation for being remarkably prescient, both on the emerging signal of greenhouse gas - induced warming back in 1988, and in the pace of warming since, among other scientific findings.

Even when Earth resumes its modest warming, which it likely will at some point in the next couple of decades, the pace of warming will continue to be quite modest and beneficial to human welfare and global ecosystems.»